Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 00:50:00 12/09/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 03:16:43, José Carlos wrote: >On December 09, 2000 at 00:26:26, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On December 09, 2000 at 00:09:15, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On December 08, 2000 at 21:04:49, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>> >>>>How about a feature that automatically snips lines starting with 3 or more ">" >>>>(with the exception of lines featuring a fen diagram)? If a poster wants to >>>>preserve such text, they can "manually" quote the parts they want to keep. >>> >>>This is a poor idea because it makes people go through hell for no reason. If >>>people want to snip, they can snip. >> >>I must be missing something. Could you elaborate on how it may be bad? > > It can be bad if A post something, B anwers, C answers "you both are wrong, >this is how it is", D posts "hey guys, all of you are wrong because...". > It is good in those cases to keep the whole thread in the same post, just to >be able to "refresh your mind" without the need to go back in the thread. > Same thing if you go to read a new post in a very long thread. You don't want >to read every post again because you don't remember something. > > José C. This is rare and can be dealt with a simple copy and paste. The point was to deal better with the vast majority of cases. If you think sniping 3 or more ">" is too agressive, then make it 5. Alternatively, it can be implemented as a filter than can be turned on/off or adjusted. I don't see your objection as being much of an obstacle. > >>>At this moment, I expect that Tim is regretting having messed with something >>>that wasn't broken and that nobody was complaining about. >> >>I don't understand why? He would not have learned anything *without* the >>experiment and he did not burn any bridges doing so. It was all quite benign and >>I would encourage him to continue with more experiments. I found it quite >>instructional as did most everyone else I believe.
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